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Analysis of posts to comp.lang.c
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 858 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat May 10 20:08:13 2008
Latest article: Sat May 17 20:04:04 2008
Original articles: 83, replies: 775
Total size of posts: 2,278,204 bytes (2,224K) (2.17M)
Average 122 articles per day, 0.31 MB per day, 2,655 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,061 KB bodies: 1,163 KB
Body text - quoted: 510 KB, original: 533 KB = 51.13%, sigs: 116 KB
Total number of posters: 170, average 13,401 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 119, average 19,144 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 50
2: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 42
3: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 37
4: Bart <>................................... ........ : 29
5: Spiros Bousbouras <>........................... : 28
6: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 26
7: santosh <>........................... ..... : 25
8: Chris H <>.............................. ..... : 24
9: pete <>.......................... ........ : 23
10: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 22
11: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 21
12: Eligiusz Narutowicz<>........... .... : 17
13: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 17
14: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 14
15: Flash Gordon <>......................... : 13
16: (Walter Roberson).................. : 13
17: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 13
18: dreamAnders <>....................... . : 13
19: Szabolcs Borsanyi <>.......... : 11
20: pereges <>............................... ..... : 11

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Top 20 posters by average article size in bytes (at least 5 posts)
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 5477
2: ............................................. : 3503
3: pereges <>............................... ..... : 3463
4: Jordan Glassman <>..................... : 3357
5: "Chris Thomasson" <>........................ : 3212
6: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 3145
7: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 3117
8: user923005 <>............................... .. : 3013
9: Bart <>................................... ........ : 2915
10: Flash Gordon <>......................... : 2842
11: pete <>.......................... ........ : 2839
12: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 2828
13: David Thompson <>.................... : 2691
14: Spiros Bousbouras <>........................... : 2690
15: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 2679
16: ............................................. : 2650
17: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_=D3_h=C9ilidhe?= <>...... : 2623
18: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 2561
19: Chris H <>.............................. ..... : 2544
20: (Jens Thoms Toerring)........................... : 2517

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: nembo kid <nembo@kid>....................................... ... : 92.76%
2: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 76.81%
3: Szabolcs Borsanyi <>.......... : 75.03%
4: smarty <>............................. ...... : 73.89%
5: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 73.15%
6: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 68.49%
7: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_=D3_h=C9ilidhe?= <>...... : 65.73%
8: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 64.16%
9: (Jens Thoms Toerring)........................... : 63.17%
10: arnuld <>........................ ...... : 62.97%
11: "Bill Cunningham" <>........................... : 60.12%
12: viza <>.............................. ........ : 56.19%
13: (Walter Roberson).................. : 55.56%
14: ............................................. : 53.34%
15: "Chris Thomasson" <>........................ : 52.67%
16: Ben Pfaff <>............................. ... : 49.29%
17: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 49.03%
18: (Kenny McCormack)................ : 48.45%
19: David Thompson <>.................... : 47.88%
20: user923005 <>............................... .. : 47.43%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 15.60%
2: Eligiusz Narutowicz<>........... .... : 17.85%
3: "Joachim Schmitz" <>............. : 18.30%
4: pete <>.......................... ........ : 24.16%
5: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 25.41%
6: Spiros Bousbouras <>........................... : 26.65%
7: dreamAnders <>....................... . : 30.40%
8: santosh <>........................... ..... : 34.12%
9: jacob navia <>................................ . : 34.31%
10: Jordan Glassman <>..................... : 35.40%
11: Barry Schwarz <>........................... . : 36.23%
12: pereges <>............................... ..... : 37.06%
13: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 37.70%
14: Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSzaw==?= <>............ : 37.72%
15: Bart <>................................... ........ : 39.87%
16: Chris McDonald <>......................... : 40.85%
17: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 41.25%
18: "Default User" <>....................... : 42.73%
19: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 42.88%
20: Chris H <>.............................. ..... : 43.52%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: C standard question?......................................... .. : 72
2: Introduce a C Compiler ucc..................................... : 62
3: portability and return......................................... : 47
4: problem with output of the program on different OS............. : 42
5: "C vs java"............................................. ....... : 32
6: standard memory allocator alignment issue...................... : 29
7: Parallel program to calculate PI............................... : 27
8: folder/directories in C........................................ : 25
9: Wit-to-whine ratios............................................ : 23
10: illegal seek.............................................. ..... : 23
11: meds.............................................. ............. : 22
12: Dynamic Memory allocation...................................... : 20
13: sum of 64 bits using 32 bits cpu............................... : 20
14: return a==b;............................................. ...... : 18
15: Redirect to STDOUT Problem..................................... : 17
16: How do I do generic programming in C?.......................... : 17
17: C popularity........................................ ........... : 16
18: Program that makes a list of words............................. : 16
19: Two dimensional array Question................................. : 16
20: Newbie question: Why does this work?........................... : 13

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: C standard question?......................................... .. : 191
2: problem with output of the program on different OS............. : 135
3: Introduce a C Compiler ucc..................................... : 127
4: Wit-to-whine ratios............................................ : 110
5: portability and return......................................... : 105
6: standard memory allocator alignment issue...................... : 80
7: "C vs java"............................................. ....... : 75
8: Parallel program to calculate PI............................... : 64
9: meds.............................................. ............. : 63
10: comp.lang.c Answers (Abridged) to Frequently Asked Questions (F : 60
11: C popularity........................................ ........... : 47
12: folder/directories in C........................................ : 46
13: Redirect to STDOUT Problem..................................... : 45
14: sum of 64 bits using 32 bits cpu............................... : 45
15: illegal seek.............................................. ..... : 45
16: How do I do generic programming in C?.......................... : 42
17: Two dimensional array Question................................. : 41
18: Dynamic Memory allocation...................................... : 39
19: Program that makes a list of words............................. : 37
20: return a==b;............................................. ...... : 34

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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 24
2: alt.comp.freeware................................. ............. : 8
3: comp.lang.php..................................... ............. : 4
4: misc.invest.stocks................................ ............. : 4
5: comp.answers...................................... ............. : 1
6: comp.lang.c.moderated............................. ............. : 1
7: news.answers...................................... ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 87
2: Unknown........................................... ............. : 12
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 10
4: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 10
5: rn................................................ ............. : 8
6: KNode............................................. ............. : 7
7: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 6
8: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 5
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 4
10: tin............................................... ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 290 (34%)
2: KNode............................................. ........ : 86 (10%)
3: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 74 ( 9%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 61 ( 7%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 57 ( 7%)
6: Outlook Express........................................... : 38 ( 4%)
7: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 35 ( 4%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11.................................. : 33 ( 4%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 33 ( 4%)
10: unknown........................................... ........ : 32 ( 4%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 356
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 185
3: -0400.............................................. ............ : 97
4: +0100............................................. ............. : 83
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 66
6: +0530............................................. ............. : 25
7: +1200............................................. ............. : 25
8: +0500............................................. ............. : 6
9: -0500.............................................. ............ : 6
10: -0600.............................................. ............ : 3

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